The CEO’s Billion Dollar Bride
Chapter 1056 - 1036: Sixty!

Chapter 1056: Chapter 1036: Sixty!

Legendary immortal fairies?

Previously, Sienna Harrison joked that the royal bloodline of Orchid Kingdom carries genes of eternal youth. Oh, she also said she was talking nonsense, but today, after seeing a sixty-year-old woman who looks just as young as a twenty-something girl, Ivy Aretha couldn’t help but suspect that it might actually be true!

"Mom?"

This call for "mom" sounded less confident, "Sixty!"

After Ruby Ross said something, she noticed a frightened expression on Ivy Aretha’s face and hurriedly came over to help her up from the ground, explaining, "In our bloodline of Orchid Kingdom, there exists a condition known as ’eternal youth illness’!"

"Eternal youth illness?"

Eternal youth is an illness? Isn’t that what countless women dream of all their lives?

"Yes, any female descendant of the royal bloodline of Orchid Kingdom will have this condition, called ’eternal youth illness.’ No matter what age your body reaches, your appearance will always remain as it was when you stopped developing, around the age of twenty-two. Therefore, another legend is that women of the royal bloodline will be surrounded by admirers all their lives, ultimately due to their beauty!"

"Ah!"

Bella Gordon was hearing about such an astonishing thing for the first time. Accidentally inheriting eternal youth and also being entangled by admirers.

"Cough, Michael, you should be careful. I have an attractive fate. If you’re not careful, it’s possible I might run off with someone else!"

"In this Andras City, even if you wanted to run off with someone else, nobody would dare to take you. As Michael Gordon’s wife, they’d need ten times the courage of a bold leopard, and even then, they wouldn’t dare!"

More than twenty years had passed, and the man who once had a languid and wicked charm had now settled into a figure of elegance and gravity—an overlord in his right. Yet, after all these years, his habit of uttering such threatening catchphrases hadn’t changed. Any man daring to provoke his wife would be fine, but the man certainly would not. That was his style!

"So, mom, do Bianca and I also have the same physique, possessing eternal youth?"

Hearing this news, Ivy Aretha was extremely excited. What others struggled to achieve, she had attained effortlessly. Of course, a woman’s beauty lasting a lifetime naturally brings a string of admirers, but she wasn’t afraid of that, because her husband was Michael Gordon, who had no rivals. This worry simply didn’t exist, leaving only joy.

"Yes, it is a hereditary condition. If Bianca has a daughter, she will inherit this condition too, having eternal youth! It is also because of this that there were many princes seeking marriage proposals in Orchid Kingdom in the past. There were even cases of forced marriage, prompting me to escape from Orchid Kingdom and meet your father on this land. However..."

As she spoke, Ruby Ross’s voice began to choke, her hand stroking Ivy Aretha’s cheek also trembling. It was clear she was in a state of extreme disquiet.

"Mom, if you don’t want to talk about it, that’s okay; I don’t care about the past!"

She had never been one to dwell on the past, believing that one should live in the present and look forward to the future. Getting entangled in the meaningless matters of bygones would only leave a person with nothing but sorrow.

"Your father and I met in Andras City. He was from a prestigious family in Dato City, and had come here on vacation. He happened to save me when I was being bullied. It was a typical story, a very common ’hero saves the damsel’ scenario, and we fell in love. But..."

Ruby Ross was clearly ready to spill the secrets of the past, and Ivy was right; life is too short to keep some things buried in your heart, leaving those who should know feeling regretful. "But my father intended to force me into marriage with the prince of Westingham Kingdom, so he had me captured and taken back. Your father and I then fled to this mountain. Soon after, during a turbulent time in Orchid Kingdom, the very year after you were born, they actually pursued us up here, intending to kill your father and you and take me back to marry the prince of Westingham. Out of desperation, I handed you over to Marina Sanders, who was infatuated with your father. I told your father to rush back to Dato City, but he refused to leave me. In the end, we hid in a cave, evading Orchid Kingdom’s search. But your father fell ill and never recovered, dying here."

Ruby’s voice was soft and indifferent, as if devoid of emotion, but the pure, star-like tears pooling in her eyes betrayed the stabbing pains in her heart. "Your father’s family, because of the issue between her and me, announced they were severing ties with him. Until the day he died, he was never allowed to step foot in his family’s home again. That’s why I’ve been guarding this mountain for so many years!"

Upon hearing this, Ivy Aretha gasped. Beneath her mother’s seemingly graceful exterior lay a heart riddled with countless wounds. It wasn’t that she had wronged Ivy but rather that she herself had been relentlessly mistreated by the world.

Orchid Kingdom, a family using her as a bargaining chip to gain power, treating her as a tool for their own benefits, relatives exploiting her, while the man who loved her died forsaken and isolated for her sake. Ivy could hardly believe what her mother must’ve relied on to survive. She had only been twenty at the time.

What kind of life had she lived over these forty years?

What kind of deeply wounded heart lay beneath that eternally youthful face?

"Mom!!"

Ivy only felt her throat turn incredibly dry, her heart, which had softened, still ached piercingly, "It’s all in the past, let’s live well as a family from now on, and move dad back to..."

At this point, Ivy realized she couldn’t continue. Regardless of who her father was, he had severed ties with his family years ago. If it had been possible, her mother would have already moved him back. It was clear he couldn’t return, and she didn’t even know if her father’s father, her nominal grandfather, was still alive.

"Let’s do this, Mom. I will handle this matter. I’ll reach out to my father’s family. If they agree, we will take my father back home. If they refuse, we’ll bury him in the Gordon family cemetery. It’s not quite appropriate for him to stay here!"

Ivy’s father was also, of course, Michael’s father now. They say a son-in-law is like half a son, and since Ivy was the only daughter, Michael was the whole son, "I’ll take care of this matter!"

"No, your dad told me before he died that he wanted to be buried here. He was tired of the constant family strife, a lifetime of struggle and conflict. Since he had left, he wished to stay here. By the edge of Saguaro Lake, surrounded by green mountains, accompanied by clear waters; unable to find peace in life, he wished for a quiet resting place in death. As long as I’m with him, that’s enough!"

He had traveled here all those years ago to escape the treachery within his own family. When he met her, who shared a similar fate, they instantly connected, finding solace in each other. From acquaintance to understanding to love, their life goals ultimately aligned.

Since it was his father’s wish, Michael Gordon had no more to say, but Ruby Ross was deeply moved by his offer, realizing how profound the love of a man must be, who would even offer to move his father-in-law’s remains to his own family’s grave. She understood it all without need for explanation.